Ria Bacon: editor & writer

Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

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The end of serendipity? Google knowledge graph seeks to second guess your searches: http://t.co/yRSCvu15 Is this a good thing?
4 days ago
Currently translating a manual on how to make a handpump. Background research takes ages but gives great feeling of learning something new.
2 weeks ago
@RiaBacon helloooo! i've been suffering from exactly the same problem.
2 weeks ago
@lucypepper Good to hear from you. Real life is getting in the way of my virtual self. Maybe I should outsource the overworked part.
2 weeks ago
Fat tax now! RT @AP In 20 years, some 42 percent of the U.S. population will be obese, new government report says: http://t.co/ImZK2ETt -EF
2 weeks ago

Stet in a cloud

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Now hear dis!

FYI

Stet means "Let it stand" and is used by editors to indicate that the original text should be left untouched.

...in Arcadia ego is a pun on a painting by Poussin.

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Relativity

Relativity 

Escher in Rome 2

An excellent photo showing perhaps the type of inspiration for “Relativity”. The photo credit is Varacalli.com. 

Escher in Rome 1

Another Roman Escher, this time of S. Michele dei Frisoni, since 1990 the national Dutch church in Rome, although the church’s antecedents with Frisians go way back to the eighth century. 

Escher in Rome (0)

Not a well known Escher but interesting for its view of Rome. I’ve been trying to work out where he was. It doesn’t seem high enough to be at the top of Gianicolo … maybe the Botanical Gardens or Villa Corsini. 

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Divided by a common language

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